A spectrometer which enables the intensity of several spectral bands of radiation to be measured one after the other in time, i.e. sequentially.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 1729
(Nomenclature, symbols, units and their usage in spectrochemical analysis - IX. Instrumentation for the spectral dispersion and isolation of optical radiation.)
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